Mental Health and Substance Use Health Services

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The HealthLink BC Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) data set includes the following:

Programs that offer early intervention, transitional care or other services that supplement and facilitate primary and adjunctive therapies; which offer community mental health education programs; or which link people who are in need of treatment with appropriate providers.

Programs that provide preventive, diagnostic and treatment services in a variety of community and hospital-based settings to help people achieve, maintain and enhance a state of emotional well-being, personal empowerment and the skills to cope with everyday demands without excessive stress or reliance on alcohol or other drugs. Treatment may include emotional support, introspection and problem-solving assistance using a variety of modalities and approaches, and medication, as needed, for individuals who have a substance use disorder involving alcohol and/or other drugs or for people who range from experiencing difficult life transitions or problems in coping with daily living to those with severe, chronic mental illnesses that seriously impact their lives.

Multidisciplinary programs, often offered on an inpatient basis with post-discharge outpatient therapy, that provide comprehensive diagnostic and treatment services for individuals who have anorexia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, bulimia or a related eating disorder. Treatment depends on the specific type of eating disorder involved but typically involves psychotherapy, nutrition education, family counseling, medication and hospitalization, if required, to stabilize the patient's health.

Dataset Extent

Latitude:

48.0° to 60.0°

Longitude:

-139.5° to -113.5°

Additional Information

Purpose

The primary purpose of this data is for populating the HealthLinkBC Directory. The HealthLinkBC Directory is a public service that provides detailed information about how and where to access health services in British Columbia. The Directory is funded by the provincial government and delivered by HealthLinkBC through https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/ or by dialling 8-1-1. The purpose of the HealthLinkBC Directory is to help British Columbians maintain and achieve better health by providing them with the right information at the right time. As a publicly-funded service, the directory includes health care and mental health and addiction services that are publicly funded (either in whole or in part) and serve the residents of British Columbia.

The data included in the HealthLinkBC Directory and by extension this data set, is maintained by the Health Information Design and Delivery team of HealthLink BC, Ministry of Health. All records in the Directory are reviewed for accuracy and completeness at minimum every two years by a Data Steward of HealthLink BC working direct with an administrator of the service listed in the record.

Metadata Information

Object Description

Short Name: MHSUComments: GSR_MENTAL_HLTH_SUBSTCE_USE_SV is a spatially enabled layer comprising

Column Name

Short Name

Data Type

Data Precision

Comments

SERVICE_NAME

SERV_NAME

VARCHAR2

500

The name of the program or service, e.g., Youth Mindfulness Group, Mind Fit.

DESCRIPTION

DESCRPTN

VARCHAR2

4000

A description of the services provided.

CONTACT_PHONE

PHONE

VARCHAR2

50

Contains the "general office" phone number of the organization providing the service, e.g., 6044640345.

WEBSITE_URL

WEBSITE

VARCHAR2

500

Contains the full URL link to a web page that describes the program or service.

CONTACT_EMAIL

EMAIL

VARCHAR2

100

Contains the "general office" email address of the organization providing the service.

STREET_ADDRESS

ADDRESS

VARCHAR2

200

A free form expression of the site descriptor (e.g. unit), and the civic building number / street / street indicator portion of an address, e.g., Unit 1, 123 Main Street East. Note that some services may not be associated with a physical address (e.g., online services).

LOCALITY

LOCALITY

VARCHAR2

100

The name of the municipality, community, Indian reservation, subdivision, regional district, aboriginal lands, or natural feature in which the service is located, e.g., Victoria, Saanich IR 1, Capital Regional District. Note that some services may not be associated with a physical address (e.g., online services).

POSTAL_CODE

POSTAL_CD

VARCHAR2

10

The Canadian Postal code value associated with the physical address, e.g., V9Z 2K1.

KEYWORDS

KEYWORDS

VARCHAR2

1000

Contains text strings supplied by the Custodian, to be used for search/query purposes. Keywords are separated by the ; delimiter.

LATITUDE

LATITUDE

NUMBER

9

The geographic coordinate, in decimal degrees (dd.dddddd), of the location of the feature as measured from the equator, e.g., 55.323653.

LONGITUDE

LONGITUDE

NUMBER

10

The geographic coordinate, in decimal degrees (-ddd.dddddd), of the location of the feature as measured from the prime meridian, e.g., -123.093544.

ORGANIZATION_NAME

ORG_NAME

VARCHAR2

100

The name of the organization operating the program or service, e.g., YWCA Metro Vancouver, Our Place Society.

SERVICE_REF

SERV_REF

NUMBER

10

A unique number, called an Internal Service Key, that is assigned to uniquely identify the service or program, e.g., 17640736.

WHEELCHAIR_ACCESSIBLE_IND

WHLCHR_ACC

VARCHAR2

1

Indicates whether the location is wheelchair accessible.

HOURS_OF_OPERATION

HOURS

VARCHAR2

500

A list of the hours of operation for each day of the week and other related notes about days and times when the service may be closed.

PROVINCE

PROVINCE

VARCHAR2

2

The province or territory in which the service is offered, e.g., BC.

WEBSITE_HEALTHLINKBC_URL

HLBC_URL

VARCHAR2

254

The link to the 811 service record in the HealthLink BC Directory.

DATE_UPDATED

DATE_UPDTD

DATE

7

DATE_UPDATED contains the date that the Occupant data was updated in the Occupant structure (system-generated)

SHAPE

SHAPE

SDO_GEOMETRY

64

SHAPE is the column used to reference the spatial coordinates defining the feature.

OBJECTID

OBJECTID

NUMBER

10

OBJECTID is a column required by spatial layers that interact with ESRI ArcSDE.

SE_ANNO_CAD_DATA

BLOB

4000

SE ANNO CAD DATA is a binary column used by spatial tools to store annotation, curve features and CAD data when using the SDO GEOMETRY storage data type.

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